The prolific artist and illustrator Peter Kuper is this year’s winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award for Cartooning. The judges noted, “Cartoons can often be silly and satirical but Peter Kuper’s work is often political, personal, and persuasive. He takes aim at some of the most pressing issues of our times, with limited text or no text at all. As Kuper puts it he’s often speechless in many ways given the magnitude of the problems we are all facing. So he finds using the vernacular of comics a way to convey ideas that can break through any language barriers.”

Kuper’s distinctive work can be found regularly in the pages of The New Yorker and in The Nation‘s OppArt.  He is also the co-founder of the long-running WW3 Illustrated, and a number of graphic novels. Congrats Peter!